Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

All problems are finally scientific problems.